Importing Music

I'm having trouble importing songs from a CD I've downloaded to ITunes (don't worry, no copyright issues). Itunes saves the file in .M4a format, which FCP can't seem to recognize. I have a Power MAC G5 with FCP5. When I import this same CD into my old iMAC with FCP3, the Itunes software saves it in .aiff format and there's no problem importing into FCP3.
What's going on here?

You need to alter your importing preferences in iTunes - they're set to the default AAC settings (thus creating .m4a files).
In iTunes 6, get to your Importing Options. Once there, select AIFF Encoder for the Import Using drop down and alter the settings to Custom, then setting the sample rate at 48.000 kHz (you can leave everything else to Automatic). When you import the CD this time, you'll have the AIFF files that you need.
(Two other things: once you set your importing options, you can simply use iTunes' Convert Song to... feature under the Advanced menu or open the .m4a file in QuickTime Pro and export an AIFF from there. Both methods won't sound as good but in case you don't have access to the CD, you should be able to get by with either.)
Edit: beaten to the punch!

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